10th March 2006, 08:27 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Tile man The outwage http://www.freewebs.com/outwageuk/ resource is useful but a) it is not a truly representative sample and b) There is confusion about job titles and no easy way of checking that equivalent jobs are being compared.
Well hold hard there!!.
OutwageUK currently contains the advertised wage rates of 86 different organisations employing archaeologists. I know that is not [u]every</u> employer, but it surely qualifies as a 'representative sample'.
The confusion over job titles is not that of OutwageUK, but that of the advertisers. I would love a simpler set of job titles (as I believe BAJR Host has also suggested in the past) but employers seem to have difficulty in grasping this point.
I intend to post a longer and more precise description of the aims of the OutwageUK survey, perhaps after the steam has run out of this strand a little (or maybe as soon as this Sunday if the weather is bad and I'm stuck indoors).